be seen from the walls on all sides. Amongst the castles taken was a royal dwelling at Montmorency, which was burnt to the ground. On 7 June, just a few weeks after the uprising began, Cale drew his forces up on a hill near his hometown of Mello and awaited the arrival of a force of nobles and mercenaries commanded by King Charles II of Navarre, which had been despatched to crush the rebellion. In an attempt to distract the advancing force, Cale sent 800 men to Meaux, where the Dauphin was sheltering with his family. Dauphin Charles fled, leaving his wife and daughter to be besieged in the castle of Marché. This did not however divert the King of Navarre, whose force arrived on 10 June. Promising safe passage, Charles of Navarre offered Cale a chance to discuss treaty terms in his camp, an opportunity Cale accepted. He left his lines, having prepared an efficient defense and entered the lines of the opposing forces. Charles did not however keep to his word and Cale was seized. The army of Jacques was destroyed in the ensuing Battle of Mello. Cale was taken in irons to Clermont where, following torture, he was beheaded in the town square, along with some of the remnants of his army. (Some accounts offer that he was tortured to death by being crowned with a red-hot crown.) The Jacquerie was destroyed and major reprisals were undertaken against the peasants who had threatened the social order of medieval France. References Sumption, Jonathan, Trial by Fire, Faber and Faber, Great Britain: 1999. 1358 deaths Popular revolt in late-medieval Europe Executed French people Year of birth unknown People from Beauvais 14th-century executions by France People executed by France by decapitation Executed people from Picardy